Emmanuel Adebayor and Fernando Torres were both pretty much unplayable during the 2007/08 campaign and each scored 24 Premier League goals. The only reason neither won the Golden Boot was because Cristiano Ronaldo was on another level and scored 31.

The presence of three Arsenal players highlights this as the Gunners’ last serious title challenge.

The midfield of the 1998/99 PFA Team of the Year really stands out. David Beckham finished second in the 1999 Ballon d’Or vote, while David Ginola was named PFA Players’ Player of the Year ahead of any of Manchester United’s treble winner – that tells you how much he was shining.

Gary Neville was probably the best right-back in the world at this stage of his career.

On one level it seems wrong that the best PFA Team of the Year of the Premier League era should be the most recent, but on another it can’t not be when all but one of this XI came from two teams who amassed an unbelievable 195 points between them.

Neither Manchester City nor Liverpool blinked in the second half of the campaign as both just kept winning games at an incredible rate.

It is possible to make a case for every player in the 2018/19 team being world class at the time of their selection, which isn’t necessarily true for the other years.